At 9.15 a.m., it arrived at the storage facilities of the State Enterprise for the Marketing of Pharmaceutical and Medical Products in Dabbash, in Baghdad's Hurriyah district. Immediately upon arrival on the site, the head of the group requested the keys to the storage facilities. The civil defence official on duty informed him that he did not have all the keys at his disposal, it being Friday, a holiday in Iraq, and only the chief of security and himself being present on the site, and that he only had the keys to the main entrance of the two storage facilities.
A su llegada al establecimiento, el jefe del grupo pidió que le entregaran las llaves de los almacenes y el funcionario de la defensa civil que se encontraba de guardia le informó de que no disponía de todas las llaves porque era viernes, día festivo en el Iraq, y sólo se encontraban presentes en el emplazamiento el jefe de seguridad y el funcionario de la defensa civil de guardia, y que solamente disponía de las llaves de la entrada principal de dos almacenes.